Band 6 Junior sister/charge nurse | Barking Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust

Barking Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust; Romford; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A reputable NHS Trust in Romford is seeking a passionate ward-based leader to manage staff and ensure high standards of patient care. The role requires advanced clinical specialist skills, excellent leadership, and the ability to coordinate a team effectively. Applicants should be ready to act as a role model and demonstrate resilience in a challenging yet rewarding environment. This position offers the opportunity to contribute to an organization that values improvements in patient care and employs a diverse workforce.

Qualifications

• Advanced clinical specialist skills to provide evidence-based patient-centred care.
• Experience in managing staff and activities of a ward.
• Ability to act as a role model and leader in a clinical area.

Responsibilities

• Provide focused leadership and manage the staff in the ward.
• Coordinate the ward team to ensure high standards of patient care.
• Be responsible for the ward/clinical area in line with local and national standards.

Skills

Tracheostomy care

Epidural care

PCA care

Excellent leadership skills

Resilience

Job description

Key Competencies

• Tracheostomy care
• Epidural care
• PCA care (patient‑controlled analgesia)
• Excellent leadership skills and resilience

To provide a focused leadership role and manage the staff and activities of the ward or clinical area as a ward‑based leader.

To act as a role model, provide leadership and coordinate the ward team in the clinical area. To demonstrate advanced clinical specialist skills in order to provide the highest standard of individualized evidence‑based patient‑centred care while supervising the work of others (in line with local and national standards). To be responsible for the ward/clinical area.

We’re an organisation that is getting better and better and our improvements are driven by a determination to deliver care we’re proud of and our patients are happy with.

They are benefitting from a new electronic patient record (we were the last acute trust in London to introduce one) and our maternity services have been rated good by the Care Quality Commission.

We operate from two main sites – KGH in Goodmayes and Queen’s Hospital in Romford. We have two busy emergency departments with more than 346,000 people visiting them last year. We’re campaigning to secure the £35m we need to transform the A&E at Queen’s and get rid of corridor care.

We’re proud of our regional Neurosciences Centre, Radiotherapy Centre and Hyper‑Acute Stroke Unit. We’re also part of the North East London Cancer Alliance.

We run a Women’s Health Hub in Ilford; an Ageing Well Centre in Hornchurch; and Community Diagnostic Centres (CDC) at Barking Community Hospital and at St George’s Health and Wellbeing Hub. These CDCs are open 12 hours a day, 7 days a week.

The majority of our 8,400 staff – who come from 146 different countries – live in the three diverse London boroughs we serve and are from black, Asian and minority ethnic groups. Many can work flexibly and more than 400 of them are on our Ofsted‑accredited apprenticeship programmes. We’re proud to be a London Living Wage employer.

For further information on this role, please see the attached detailed Job Description and Person Specification.

The person specification listed below is not the full specification requirements for the role. Please ensure you review the full specification on the job description prior to submitting your application.

Applicants are advised to read all the information on the advert and the supporting information before completing and submitting an application. As you complete your application please ensure you clearly demonstrate how you meet the criteria in the person specification for this post by adequately completing the supporting information section of the application form.

All new staff appointed at the Trust are subject to a probationary period.

Applications should be made online, however, queries regarding the application process, assistance with completion of the application form or if you require any adjustments (for applicants with a disability) please contact Rachna Srivastava Recruitment Advisor, on 01708 435000 | ext 5904. Further details regarding the post may be obtained by contacting the manager as per the contact details above.

This advert closes on Sunday 18 Jan 2026